Sphenomandibularis

The sphenomandibularis is a muscle attaching to the Sphenoid bone, sphenoid bone and the human mandible, mandible. It is a muscle of mastication. Unlike most of the muscles of the human body, which had been categorized several centuries ago, the sphenomandibularis was discovered in the mid-1990s at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. The findings were published in 1996. The sphenomandibularis is considered by many sources to be a portion of the temporalis, rather than a distinct muscle.

References

External links

Identification and Visualization of the Sphenomandibularis Muscle in the Visible Human Male and Female Data SetsVisible Human Project,
National Library of Medicine

Sphenomandibularis Muscle figure

Muscles of the head and neck

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